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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:34 AM

First round deadline extended

Shreyas Vijaykumar posted on his blog that the first round deadline has been moved for Office Designer, Rendering, Short Film, Web Development, and Technology Business Plan invitationals of Imagine Cup . It was March 1, 2005 and it was moved to April
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:47 AM

Open Discussion on Windows and Linux

Martin A. Taylor and Bill Hilf hold an Open Discussion on Windows and Linux from the Microsoft perspective. In this third installment of TechNet Radio you will learn about the comparative differences between Windows and Linux and other open-source alternatives.
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Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:55 PM

Inside story on SP2

Paul Thurrott has an interesting interview with Todd Wanke, Ryan Burkhardt, and Jon Murchinson about the creation of Windows XP SP2 . If you are wondering why SP2 is so big, Rebecca Norlander answered that question on Channel 9 as well as gave a demo
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Monday, December 20, 2004 1:18 PM

Version 2.0 of Paint.NET available for free download

As mentioned on Rick Brewster's blog , Paint.NET v2.0 is now available for download . Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation program that was coded in C# by students at Washington State University. Check out the screenshots . -James (Cal. State
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Monday, December 20, 2004 12:49 PM

Are you on the naughty or nice list?

There is more than one way to get on Santa's nice list as this FoxTrot comic illustrates. -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)
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Monday, December 20, 2004 9:42 AM

Finished the holiday shopping yet?

If you haven't finished your holiday shopping yet, hopefully you are not seeking any of the products Jim Louderback describes in his article. While these products shouldn't be too hard to find who would really want one? Jim's article details, Ten to Avoid
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Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:18 PM

Ever wanted to port an app from Linux to Windows (.NET)?

Over the past week Josh Blake of James Madison University has ported an application from Linux to Windows primarily using C# . I had to learn a lot about the Win32 API...and I'm talking some intense stuff, like Access Control Entries (ACE), Desktop API
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Friday, December 17, 2004 11:58 PM

Special Holiday Episode of MSDN TV

Don Box and Chris Anderson demo the basics of writing custom layout code in Avalon. There is also a rendition of a classic holiday poem at the end of the episode. -James ( Cal. State University , Long Beach )
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Friday, December 17, 2004 8:47 PM

Blogging required in a Northwestern course

Nitish comments on a course at Northwestern requiring students to blog. Would you be interested in taking a course like this, using the experience of blogging as a learning tool about society? (Side question - that course will use Wordpress. What engines
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:48 PM

Imagine Cup Algorithm Invitational Update

The Imagine Cup team is soliciting user feed back based on two UIs that will be used for the Algorithm Invitational of the Imagine Cup . Check out the post here from Shreyas . --Eric (Grand Valley State University)
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:51 AM

Themes for XP

James, one of our contributing students, just blogged about the new Christmas Theme available for Windows XP over on his theSpoke blog (it's always fun when you have multiple blogs, and keep track of what you post where!). He also points to the Energy
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:41 AM

The power of grad students...

Students at University of Illinois Chicago dug under the covers of various UNIX applications and claim to have discovered 44 bugs . -Kevin
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 5:18 PM

Bill Gates on the secret of success

Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect, answers the questions he is asked most frequently, including the secret to his success. -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 5:11 PM

Ever wonder how people actually use cameraphones?

Kevin Schofield , from Microsoft Research, points to an interesting study .
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:56 PM

Free resource DVD

Thomas Nguyen , Microsoft Student Ambassador at University of Houston, mentions that the Visual Studio Partner Resource DVD is available. It includes full, trial and demo products from 45 VSIP Partners, featuring some familiar partners like Borland, Infragistics,
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:29 PM

P2P in 15 Lines of Code

Peer-to-Peer technology while viewed by many as a bad thing, becuase it tends to provide an easy means to infringe on copyrights is an extremely powerful technology that won't be disappearing any time soon. Ed Felten and Alex Halderman of Princenton developed,
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:55 AM

Chat with the Visual Studio 2005 team!

The Visual Studio 2005 (ex-Whidbey) team will be chatting on December 15th about the new templates and starter kits, including tips and tricks. -Kevin
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:24 AM

Windows Embedded Student ChallengE 2005

The Windows Embedded Student ChallengE 2005 is up and running. If you're a Software/Computer Engineering major, this could be a great way get some more recognition for your idea (after you win out in the Imagine Cup , of course!). Alfred found some good
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:19 AM

More Visual Gaming (Imagine Cup) links

Alfred Thompson, a Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist in New England, keeps a great blog going over on theSpoke . He'd especially interested in the Visual Gaming Invitational for Imagine Cup - c heck out his latest posts on it. -Kevin (Microsoft
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:07 PM

Student Ambassador from SUNY - Binghampton - Imagine Cup Blog

Pu Liu, a Microsoft Student Ambassador from SUNY - Binghampton, started up a blog for students on his campus all about Imagine Cup . Lots of cool links and resources about the competition to be had there. -Kevin (Microsoft)
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:51 PM

Researchers claim Linux has fewer bugs

From Slashdot: Wired has an article stating that according to a four-year analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code conducted by five Stanford University computer science researchers, the Linux kernel programming code is better and more secure
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:21 AM

Apple Student Blogs

Apple is trying out an interesting concept in blogging , not unlike MSDN Student Flash . It just got started on November 18th, and while off to a bit of a slow start (13 posts since then), they do seem to be picking up the pace. The idea is students sharing
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Monday, December 13, 2004 11:11 PM

Is your department a member of MSDNAA?

MSDN Academic Alliance school member search site now includes the URL's for MSDNAA Software Centers. Ever wonder what software other departments make available? -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)
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Monday, December 13, 2004 10:07 AM

Find anything, anywhere, fast!

Finals are almost over so now what are you going to do? How about some nice beta software to play with in time for the holidays? Check out the MSN Toolbar Suite beta . -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)
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Friday, December 10, 2004 11:54 PM

Step by step Imagine Cup registration

Joshua Blake , a Microsoft Student Ambassador, created a great site to explain the process for signing up for Imagine Cup . Make sure everyone on your campus is registered! -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)
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Friday, December 10, 2004 11:19 PM

Could you survive The Code Room?

Three MSDN event attendees are taken to an inner-city warehouse, equipped with a partially-charged laptop, and tasked with designing and developing an e-commerce Web site in a matter of hours. Watch the fun and learn about ASP.NET v2.0 at the same time.
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Friday, December 10, 2004 10:26 PM

Don Box on technical presentations and nudity

Ian Ceicys informed me about a great Channel 9 video where Don Box talks about his philosophy on giving a good presentation. A must watch video since we all give presentations in class and elsewhere on campus. -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:33 PM

Butlerville Elemntary School - cool use of a blog in education

We're always on the lookout for unique ways to make use of blogs in education. This is a nice one: an elementary school in Ohio has a blog maintained by the principal that acts as a general information site (lots of resource links) and a great way for
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:44 PM

Imagine Cup in the news

Dennis Pham was on the front page of his school newspaper, The Poly Post , talking about Imagine Cup . Where have you seen or heard about Imagine Cup on your campus? -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:49 AM

EggHeadCafe.com Launches .NET Programming Contest

Each month, the editors at eggheadcafe.com will choose a programming problem that is designed to highlight a particular area of the .NET Framework. Problems are selected based on originality and "exercisability". This seems like a pretty cool monthly
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:30 PM

Need a Regular Expression?

Tonight I was working on creating a regular expression to parse URLs for a program and I could not get one part to work properly (probably because I am tired... since I have pretty much been up for about 42 hours right now). When I mentioned this to James
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Monday, December 06, 2004 3:44 PM

More Imagine Cup - who's competing?

When the competition rounds heat up we'll use this space to do running commentaries and leader boards. But until then, here's an interesting look at where students are coming from to register for the competitions. Special note to Cal and Cal Poly Pomona,
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Monday, December 06, 2004 3:39 PM

Geek of the Week: Jennifer Chang, San Jose State

INTRODUCING: Hola! My name is Chia-chen Chang, a.k.a. Jennifer. I am a graduate student at San Jose State University in San Jose , California . I am a Microsoft Student Ambassador as well as a Teaching Assistant for three classes, including a .NET class.
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Monday, December 06, 2004 3:37 PM

Insomniac Nation - updates

Just some completely random cool links I came across Microsoft ’s Ian McDonald is blogging – he knows a thing or two about shipping products (think: Windows) Can’t get enough of Cryptonomicon? Read Slashdot’s interview with Neal Stephenson If you haven’t
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Monday, December 06, 2004 3:36 PM

The Buzz - ConferenceXP

Conference XP is an initiative from Microsoft Research to push the boundaries of collaboration in the classroom, through distance learning, and more. It’s the type of classroom your professors would droll over! Download the latest version of the client
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Monday, December 06, 2004 3:35 PM

Imagine Cup Updates

Into Software Design ? Download the sample application spec now (OneNote format). Like gaming ? Jump over to Project Hoshimi , learn the backstory, download the SDK and get started. The Visual Gaming invitational is now taking submissions. --Kevin (Microsoft
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Monday, December 06, 2004 3:30 PM

Heard@theSpoke

It’s been a busy month for theSpoke , so here’s the quick summary of some of the most interesting stuff going on: Interested in how theSpoke works? Download theSpoke API Starter Kit (beta), then share your ideas for how to improve theSpoke community in
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Monday, December 06, 2004 11:58 AM

SF Challenge Coming Soon...

The MSDN Student Flash team would like to release a new bi-weekly or tri-weekly challenge post and we are looking for your input. We have been contemplating how to properly do this and are going to begin experimenting very soon. What we were thinking
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Monday, December 06, 2004 10:15 AM

Why are manhole covers round?

Thomas Nguyen , a Microsoft Student Ambassador, passed along a good site with interview questions . How Would You Move Mount Fuji? by William Poundstone is a good book if you are interested in Microsoft style puzzle questions. How do you prepare for interviews?
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Saturday, December 04, 2004 10:55 AM

FREE fun for Windows XP

Get the Winter Fun Pack 2004 and have more fun with Windows XP this winter season! Spice up your music, photos and more with amazing holiday visualizations, skins, powertoys and other fun add-ons. The Winter Fun Pack 2004 includes: Holiday visualizations,
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Friday, December 03, 2004 9:50 AM

Try out a cool new (and free!) blogging engine

MSN Spaces just launched in beta. It's got great integration with the latest version of MSN Messenger (7.0). Definitely worth playing around with if you enjoy blogging!
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Thursday, December 02, 2004 7:21 AM

Have you tried the MSN Messenger Beta?

Check out the latest MSN Messenger Beta . I just started running it and it's pretty sweet. --Eric (Grand Valley State University)
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:27 PM

Does your app think in ink? ArtRage does!

Ambient Design Ltd., creator of ArtRage, is the $100,000 grand prize winner of the Microsoft Tablet PC Does Your Application Think in Ink? contest . It is a competition challenging developers to utilize the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Software Developer
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